Dmitri Baltermants (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Бальтерманц; 13 May 1912 – 11 June 1990) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist.
Baltermants planned to become a math teacher in a Military Academy, but he fell in love with photography and began a career in the field of photojournalism in 1939.
[1] Apprenticed to Vladimir Musinov,[2] he became an official Kremlin photographer, worked for the daily Izvestia and was picture editor of the popular magazine Ogonyok.
Just like his fellow photographers covering the Red Army during the war, Baltermants' images were censored by Soviet authorities because of irritating perspectives[3] or works that otherwise weren't likely to boost morale.
One of the more famous images, called "Grief", depicts a 1942 Nazi massacre of Jews in the Crimean city of Kerch.